[…] was the official and, of course, he was a famous new reader and news commentator, certainly as far as motion pictures were concerned, he did all the newsreels. I was quite honoured to be with him. Lovely chap. (Time 32:38) I didn’t do a thing. I never [unclear]… […]
[…]erk in offices of Denham Labs; transfers to technical side; George Barker boss; Sensitometric Dept; uses a densitometer
00:14:08 Grading. Handling newsreel rushes for Pathe and Gaumont; D-Day footage. Working during air raids.
00:18:22 ACT film I Know Where I’m Going. Denham lab described;
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[…]ture and often the second feature would perhaps of appeal to the odd customer more than the main film. In them. In between these two there would be a newsreel and a few trailers advertising forthcoming films maybe a cartoon film but of course in the early days even at Colford there would be a live a[…]
[…]e I directed one, that I’d edited and written. So they said “oh, that’s great, come and be an editor!”. And I said ‘well, what is it?” and he said “a newsreel for the colonies, but we’re having to tart it up a bit, because some of the stuff we’re getting from the second front isn’t all that wonderfu[…]
[…]e. I mean, nothing to do with that. But I mean, we did a whole series of things for Richard Thomas and Baldwins, which was a sort of three months the newsreel which was shown in all the cinemas in South Wales and this was called England pictorial ugly name and it covered social events and all sorts […]
[…] got permission to actually use authentic stuff it wasn't too bad. I mean the shots in "Next of Kin", although it's pretty obvious what are cut in as newsreel shots on what aren't are extremely authentic. Roy Fowler 20:39 What kind of influence did officialdom, the bureauc[…]
[…]orded, a few of these terrible B pictures but that was all. Roy Fowler:Yes I guess they did find a few things in the in the archives some of the newsreel archives I think have little bits but nothing that is consistent or complete and the shots were always recognisable it's like Betty, Keppel &[…]
[…]nd trying to dunk a duck, I think I told you this story did I? You know, if a duck gets detergent on it, as well, as you've seen from these dreadful, newsreel things, about seabirds, they lose all the oil from their feathers, and they can't float anymore. And so to demonstrate the power of detergent[…]
[…]hat out for a year and I used to, in the afternoons, I used to occasionally pop into all the comedy, cartoon cinemas around and I used to see all the newsreels and Laurel and Hardy and all those sort of things, and the early cartoons. So that’s what I used to do, you know. It was quite a[…]
